• Discussions are underway about using blockchain to track federal spending, secure data, facilitate payments, and manage buildings - [IH]

• Brian Armstrong says Coinbase is considering a shift to a democratized listing style with a "block list" instead of an "allow list" - [Zoomer]

• NVIDIA drops 7.5% in pre-market trading - [DB]

• U.S. stock index futures decline; S&P 500 e-mini futures down 2.3%, NASDAQ futures down 4%, and Dow futures down 1% - [IH]

• MSTR acquires 10,107 bitcoins at an average price of $105,596 each - [AGGR]

• Microstrategy files for a mixed securities shelf to fund additional Bitcoin purchases and general corporate purposes - [Tree]

• MicroStrategy announces proposed offering of strike preferred stock (STRK) - [AGGR]

• U.S. reports first outbreak of highly pathogenic H5N9 bird flu in poultry - [WB]

• S&P 500 opens down 2.1%, NASDAQ declines 3.5% - [DB]

• NVIDIA shares drop 13%, marking the largest decline since 2020 - [DB]

• Ripple obtains money transmitter licenses in New York and Texas - [Tree]

• DeepSeek AI buzz wipes out $1 trillion from US tech stocks - [IH]

• DEEPSEEK restricts registrations to users with China mobile phone numbers - [IH]

• DeepSeek supports registration only with mainland China mobile phone numbers - [IH]

• DeepSeek reports service degradation caused by large-scale malicious attack - [DB]

• NVIDIA shares drop 15%, reaching session low - [EI]

• CFTC Acting Chair Caroline D. Pham launches public roundtables on market structure innovations, focusing on conflicts of interest, prediction markets, and digital assets - [Tree]

• DeepSeek releases Janus 7B model for image generation - [IH]

• Trump to sign order to start creation of U.S. 'Iron Dome' - [IH]

• NVIDIA shares fall further, down 18% - [WB]

• DeepSeek's results raise concerns as they achieved them without Nvidia's top chips, although they still required Nvidia GPUs - [IH]